| Fortuna Köln beat Bayer Leverkusen 2-1 (A) on 21 Feb 1979 |
| Bayer Leverkusen beat Hannover 2-1 (H) on 29 Oct 1978 |
| Hannover beat Rot Weiß Lüdenscheid 4-2 (A) on 20 Aug 1978 |
| Rot Weiß Lüdenscheid beat Wacker 04 Berlin 4-1 (H) on 17 Sep 1978 |
| Wacker 04 Berlin beat TeBe Berlin 2-1 (A) on 29 Oct 1978 |
| TeBe Berlin beat Westfalia Herne 2-1 (A) on 26 Nov 1978 |
| Westfalia Herne beat SC Viktoria 04 Köln 3-1 (A) on 3 Sep 1978 |
| SC Viktoria 04 Köln beat Rot Weiss Essen 3-2 (H) on 26 Nov 1978 |
| Rot Weiss Essen beat VfL Osnabrück 3-0 (H) on 5 Nov 1978 |
| VfL Osnabrück beat Arminia Hannover 2-0 (H) on 3 Sep 1978 |
| Arminia Hannover beat SG Union Solingen 3-1 (H) on 15 Oct 1978 |
| SG Union Solingen beat Alemannia Aachen 1-0 (H) on 20 Aug 1978 |
| Alemannia Aachen beat Uerdingen 4-0 (H) on 8 Oct 1978 |
| Uerdingen beat Wuppertaler SV 4-2 (H) on 30 Jul 1978 |
| Wuppertaler SV beat Wattenscheid 2-0 (A) on 13 Aug 1978 |
| Wattenscheid beat DSC Wanne Eickel 3-2 (A) on 3 Sep 1978 |
| DSC Wanne Eickel beat Preußen Münster 2-1 (H) on 9 Aug 1978 |
| Preußen Münster beat Holstein Kiel 2-0 (H) on 19 Nov 1978 |
| Holstein Kiel beat St Pauli 2-1 (H) on 1 Oct 1978 |
| St Pauli beat Fortuna Köln 2-1 (H) on 3 Sep 1978 |
HWC: Thick arrows show the earliest chain of wins that passes through every team and returns to its start.